Monday, June 11, 2007

what a normal day often looks like

I woke up around 4:30, which is earlier than average. Usually, I wake up closer to 5:30. I ate breakfast and proofed five articles. I came downstairs, started editing, and did some blog reading in snatches.

The girls were up around six. Usually, I try to convince them to go back to bed. However, since I am trying to lose weight, I thought I should start taking their early rising as an opportunity for an early workout. We went for a mile long run during which I found this beetle half-dead.

Surrendering part of my morning is a bit frustrating as I lose my best writing time (what I write early in the morning, requires fewer revisions) but I suppose the benefits will weigh out.

After the run, I get the girls breakfast, hubby's breakfast, and I pack hubby's lunchbox (he prepares his lunch the night before, I just move it to the box). I got some laundry going and the dishwasher going and folded clothes. I made sure hubby was up by eight.

At eight=thirty the girls and I went outside, I cleared the weeds out of the backyard sunflower bed while they played. Hubby left around 9:15. We stayed outside and I continued working. I tied up my tomatoes some more (some are approaching three feet tall) and then I mowed the front yard. I used the clippings to mulch around the sunflowers.

At ten-thirty, the girls and I came inside. C took a bath while I showered and K watched a video. After my shower, K got in the tub and C listened to an audio book. I took the time to vacuum and sweep all the floors on the entry and main level.

At nearly noon, we ran out to pick up a few things we were short on. At one, we were home and the girls ate lunch. I ate and did some straightening up while they ate. After I put the girls in bed, I finished up one of the collages I've been working on, edited some articles, wrote this, and did a bunch of other misc. stuff.

It sounds like you had a very productive day! :o) That was fun to read! One of my children read a biography of Teddy Roosevelt. He hated the time exercise required; he thought exercise was boring. Oh, how that spoke to me - lol!! I'm trying to learn to love it! :o)

I need to get walking again but have mostly been pacing around the house when I need to think--which lately is a lot of walking. :) Actually pacing while thikning is a pretty productive type of excercise--nd pacing around the outside of the house gets me some sun as well. :) Writing early or late is best for me--least productive time of the day is mid afternoon--I can't do ANYTHING during that time, somehow it always slips right by. :)

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About Me

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness,
and truth presupposes error.
It is these mingled opposites which people our life,
which make it pungent,
intoxicating.
We only exist
in terms of this conflict,
in the zone
where black and white clash. Louis Aragon